Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:19 pm on 6 March 2018.
Yes, on that second one, I'm in advanced negotiations with the various parts of the Government in order to make sure that we do sign up to that initiative. I was very proud to be able to speak, if only briefly, to the LeadHerShip event last week. I did say to the protagonist there that I was about to do FMQs and I was completely and utterly terrified and that I was going to do it anyway. The same feminist who taught me at the University of Sussex all those years ago introduced me to a book called Fear of Flying, which I could recommend to people even now, which is 'feel the fear and do it anyway' expressed in modern-day parlance.
One of the reasons I was delighted to be at the Val Feld plaque unveiling was because Val was just such a person—she was an incredible human being, she was really funny. When she related back some of the tales that she'd—you know, when she'd taken her current campaign to those on high and she'd come back and tell you the story afterwards, you'd be in stitches—literally in stitches—but it never took away from the seriousness with which she pursued equality. I thought her children and grandchildren were a real inspiration to us all. And we are indeed standing on the shoulders of the women who went before us, Deputy Presiding Officer, and, as I said earlier, we have a long way to go before we get that equality.